[TriLUG] FYI - FCC seeks comments regarding prevention of users flashing the firmware of devices containing radio transmitters

[Tim Jowers via TriLUG]

Thanks,

added comment. I'm telling ya, the Linux community itself will eventually
be outlawed if we don't get active in government. We need a lobbyist
focused on these sorts of things. The government works off of relationships
and meetings, not facts.

Cheers,
Tim


On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> My first thought was who is paying for this?  With the immediate
> conclusion that it is cell phone companies that don't want people opting
> to use non provider software.
>
> My second thought was those who want to put back doors into encryption
> into software such as cell phones that would in turn be controlled by a
> provider.
>
> Somehow I doubt that without congressional backlash that the FCC has a
> prayer of listening to We The People.
>
> In addition to making FCC comments, we should be pounding on the doors of
> our elected representatives:
> http://www.ncleg.net/representation/WhoRepresentsMe.aspx
>
> My third thought is that this is going to have as much compliance as gun
> registry does in places like NY and CT - meaning nearly none at all.
>
> > Another site you may want to visit is this one put up by the Electronic
> > Frontier Foundation:
> >
> > <https://www.DearFCC.org/>
> >
> > ---
> > "Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large.
> We
> > have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!" - Cereal Killer, from the
> > movie Hackers(1995)
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Mike Shaw <mdshaw89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Just saw this -
> >>
> >> The Federal Communications Commission seeking comments on preventing
> >> users
> >> from flashing the firmware of devices that contain radio transmitters.
> >> (So this would affect Open-WRT on wireless routers, Cyanogenmod on
> >> mobile
> >> devices, etc.)  If you don't want the FCC to restrict users from doing
> >> this
> >> -- or
> >> want to know why you should not want them to restrict this, visit:
> >>
> >>   <http://www.savewifi.org/>
> >>
> >> which re-directs to:
> >>
> >>   <https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi/Individual_Comments>
> >>
> >> Comments are due October 9th!
> >>
> >> ---
> >> "Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large.
> >> We
> >> have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!" - Cereal Killer, from
> >> the
> >> movie Hackers(1995)
> >>
> > --
>
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